I thought you had to have a real guide pass (or whatever it's called this week) to access the video.
I'm guessing that this change also has to do to the lack of revenue coming from that venture. Which would confirm the fact that Real is having problems attracting people to pay for their premium content.
I spent 7 years at a catholic school in Europe as well (followed by 4 at a non-catholic school) and it was not until I got to the US that I had even heard of "Intelligent Design"
With the iPod I can carry my entire music collection and play whatever matches my mood. With the PSP I would have to go loaded with multiple disks that I may be interested in watching.
My iPod will let me listen to my music for an average of 10 hours. Will I be able to watch 2 or more movies on a single charge?
It doesn't matter how much time I spend in the pre-planning stage, meeting with users, coming up with all the needs and feature requests. Once the project is in progress, and specially as you start demoing it, the end users will start adding requirements that had never come up before no matter how detailed you tried to be. And of course all the "wouldn't it be nice if"s.
Sometimes some of the new requirements or wants involve going back and rewriting a good chunk of code, or changing the DB design, etc, no matter how carefully you wrote your code and flexible the code may be.
When someone showed me a web page for the first time using a highly secure government computer, I said "oh, like Gopher with pictures, not a big deal."
I wish it'd let me remove the Top Stories section or send it somewhere else. I rather have the news that interest me the most (custom searches and entertainment) at the top. I don't care about what's going on in Lebanon or some killing in Chicago.
Feel free to label this as Off Topic but I have a question.
As a self-proclaimed geek, I've totally missed on the VoIP bandwagon. Other than the fact that VoIP is currently cheaper, what are the advantages for customers who choose VoIP vs. POTS.
I've thought about getting it, but just for the geekyness factor of it all and to save a few bucks but I wonder if I'm just missing something.
I don't care if someone is gay, or sells his body to consenting adults.
What bothers me is that "somehow", a person using a fake identity and with no reporting experience gets access to White House press briefings to ask the President prepared soft-ball questions.
We wanted to purchase a couple LCDs from Dell and we noticed that "consumer pricing" was cheaper than our "government pricing." So we ordered it from the consumer's site instead.
We were looking at installing some displays around the offices to show news, PR, etc (you know, that "modern look" you see everywhere).
After some reasearch we chose LCDs due to the aging and burn-in issues of Plasma TVs. An LCD would be more expensive, but give us a much better life.
Other offices went with Plasma TVs instead. Fast forward a few years, now they are complaining about brightness issues, logo burn-ins, etc and they are budgeting to replace them. Our LCDs are happily chugging along.
So these news, true or not, do not come as a surprise to me.
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I thought you had to have a real guide pass (or whatever it's called this week) to access the video.
I'm guessing that this change also has to do to the lack of revenue coming from that venture. Which would confirm the fact that Real is having problems attracting people to pay for their premium content.
Amen. That is what I've been saying for years. Crying children and teenagers with cell phones are the reasons why I don't go.
My secondary reason is the product commercials that are now being shown before the trailers.
iCal is their calendar software.
Have you ever gone to a Disney theme park and been asked to take a survey? The handheld they use to write down your answer is a Newton.
..... or so have I been told by an Apple higher up.
Apple has a contract to supply Disney with them until 2010.
As much as I wish that was true, it is not. I can be fired, or not hired, just because I'm gay, at just about any place.
Well, here's one.
I would like to be able to personalize my google start page but I do not want anyone in my job to somehow have access to my gmail account at work.
You downloaded Google? Did it fit on a floppy or did you need a Zip disk?
This news come a little too late for the deer I ran into a month ago. Poor thing.
I spent 7 years at a catholic school in Europe as well (followed by 4 at a non-catholic school) and it was not until I got to the US that I had even heard of "Intelligent Design"
I should have said that they are already PLANNING on doing that (it has not been demonstrated yet, at least not in front of the public)
They are already doing that. Story link
Maybe you are not in their intended target market?
With the iPod I can carry my entire music collection and play whatever matches my mood. With the PSP I would have to go loaded with multiple disks that I may be interested in watching.
My iPod will let me listen to my music for an average of 10 hours. Will I be able to watch 2 or more movies on a single charge?
It doesn't matter how much time I spend in the pre-planning stage, meeting with users, coming up with all the needs and feature requests. Once the project is in progress, and specially as you start demoing it, the end users will start adding requirements that had never come up before no matter how detailed you tried to be. And of course all the "wouldn't it be nice if"s.
Sometimes some of the new requirements or wants involve going back and rewriting a good chunk of code, or changing the DB design, etc, no matter how carefully you wrote your code and flexible the code may be.
When someone showed me a web page for the first time using a highly secure government computer, I said "oh, like Gopher with pictures, not a big deal."
I really just want to play Tetris on it.
I wish it'd let me remove the Top Stories section or send it somewhere else. I rather have the news that interest me the most (custom searches and entertainment) at the top. I don't care about what's going on in Lebanon or some killing in Chicago.
Feel free to label this as Off Topic but I have a question.
As a self-proclaimed geek, I've totally missed on the VoIP bandwagon. Other than the fact that VoIP is currently cheaper, what are the advantages for customers who choose VoIP vs. POTS.
I've thought about getting it, but just for the geekyness factor of it all and to save a few bucks but I wonder if I'm just missing something.
I don't care if someone is gay, or sells his body to consenting adults.
What bothers me is that "somehow", a person using a fake identity and with no reporting experience gets access to White House press briefings to ask the President prepared soft-ball questions.
We wanted to purchase a couple LCDs from Dell and we noticed that "consumer pricing" was cheaper than our "government pricing." So we ordered it from the consumer's site instead.
That reminds me of an email I got the other day when I asked the user if she had MS Word. I'll paste it here:
"I have microsoft explorer xp, but don't think it's microsoft word. It's call word perfect."
Maybe it's just me, but the novelty of TechTV quickly wore off and it felt like I had not left work.
I have not watched TechTV for a long, long time for that reason alone.
I can hear it already, from the usuals:
"That video card sucks!"
"Not enough RAM!"
"A larger HD should be a must!"
etc...
And then it'll turn out to be a big seller anyway.
We were looking at installing some displays around the offices to show news, PR, etc (you know, that "modern look" you see everywhere).
After some reasearch we chose LCDs due to the aging and burn-in issues of Plasma TVs. An LCD would be more expensive, but give us a much better life.
Other offices went with Plasma TVs instead. Fast forward a few years, now they are complaining about brightness issues, logo burn-ins, etc and they are budgeting to replace them. Our LCDs are happily chugging along.
So these news, true or not, do not come as a surprise to me.